JERRILYN McGREGORY, Associate Professor, Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, (1992).  Dr. McGregory specializes in African-American literature and folklore.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• "Fearless Ezekiel: Alterity in the Detective Fiction of Walter Mosley." Finding a Way Home: Critical Essays on Walter Mosley. Eds. Derek Maus and Owen Brady. Jackson; University Press of Mississippi. In press.
• "Playing in the Dark: Under the Big Top, the Africanist Presence." The Many Faces of Circus. Ed. Robert Sugarman. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
• "Nalo Hopkinson's Approach to Speculative Fiction." FEMSPEC, Vol. 6.1, 2005: 3-17.
• "Wiregrass Country Pageant Competitions, or What's Beauty Got to Do With It?" in Miss America Pageant edited by Elwood Watson, New York: Palgrave, Aug. 2004.
• "Livingston, Alabama Blues: The Significance of Vera Ward Hall," Tributaries, 2002.
• "Harry Crews's Home Place: An Excursion into Wiregrass Country and the Carnivalesque," in Perspectives on Harry Crews edited by Erik Bledsoe, Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2001.
• Alabama: From Lullabies to Blues CD booklet for Rounder 11661-1829-2. Cambridge, MA: Rounder Records, 2001.
• Wiregrass Country, UP of Mississippi, 1997.
• "'May the Work I've Done Speak for Me': African American Women as Community," Usable Past, Utah State UP, 1997.
• "The Greening of Philadelphia," Pennsylvania Folklife, 1994.
• "An African American Celebration of Life," National Geographic, 1990.
• "Aareck to Zsaneka: New Trends in African American Onomastics," Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Onomastic Science, 1987.